Software Engineer Jobs in Leeds

Software Engineer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Software Engineer salary in Leeds is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
5 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 38 58
Rank change year-on-year -3 +20 +7
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 41 114 155
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 5.30% 5.06% 5.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.65% 5.28% 5.38%
Number of salaries quoted 37 70 81
10th Percentile £41,000 £34,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £40,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £45,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -28.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £93,778 £69,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £140,677 £72,180 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £78,810 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +43.29% -10.57% +11.82%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Leeds. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Leeds with a recognized job title 726 2,161 2,879
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.80% 96.00% 95.17%
Number of salaries quoted 504 1,562 1,728
10th Percentile £28,788 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,038 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £69,979 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £84,056 £86,250
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Job postings that featured Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in Leeds

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineer in Leeds.

Salary trend for Software Engineer in Leeds

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in Leeds over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in Leeds

Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds

For the 6 months to 5 May 2025, Software Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Leeds region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 41 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 26 (63.41%) JavaScript
3 23 (56.10%) C#
3 23 (56.10%) .NET
4 21 (51.22%) Agile
5 19 (46.34%) SQL
5 19 (46.34%) Finance
5 19 (46.34%) Mentoring
5 19 (46.34%) CI/CD
6 18 (43.90%) React
7 17 (41.46%) TypeScript
7 17 (41.46%) Banking
8 16 (39.02%) Git
8 16 (39.02%) Kubernetes
9 14 (34.15%) Docker
9 14 (34.15%) AWS
9 14 (34.15%) Node.js
10 13 (31.71%) GCP
11 12 (29.27%) Social Skills
12 11 (26.83%) Distributed Systems
13 10 (24.39%) Cloud Native
13 10 (24.39%) Microservices
14 9 (21.95%) Java
14 9 (21.95%) SQL Server
14 9 (21.95%) RESTful
14 9 (21.95%) Event-Driven
15 8 (19.51%) Terraform
15 8 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
15 8 (19.51%) Roadmaps
15 8 (19.51%) SaaS

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 14 (34.15%) AWS
2 13 (31.71%) GCP
3 8 (19.51%) SaaS
4 5 (12.20%) Azure
4 5 (12.20%) GitHub
5 4 (9.76%) Power Platform
6 3 (7.32%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (4.88%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (4.88%) Amazon S3
7 2 (4.88%) Apigee
7 2 (4.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (2.44%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (2.44%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (2.44%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.44%) dbt
8 1 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.44%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.44%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (21.95%) SQL Server
2 4 (9.76%) Biml
2 4 (9.76%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (9.76%) Power BI
2 4 (9.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 4 (9.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (9.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (7.32%) NoSQL
4 2 (4.88%) Big Data
4 2 (4.88%) DynamoDB
4 2 (4.88%) MySQL
5 1 (2.44%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.44%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 16 (39.02%) Git
2 6 (14.63%) Oracle Forms
3 4 (9.76%) JIRA
3 4 (9.76%) Visual Studio
4 2 (4.88%) Jenkins
4 2 (4.88%) JUnit
4 2 (4.88%) Maven
4 2 (4.88%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (4.88%) SonarQube
4 2 (4.88%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (4.88%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (2.44%) CircleCI
General
1 19 (46.34%) Finance
2 17 (41.46%) Banking
3 12 (29.27%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.44%) Health Technology
4 1 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.44%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (56.10%) .NET
2 18 (43.90%) React
3 14 (34.15%) Node.js
4 9 (21.95%) RESTful
5 8 (19.51%) Kafka
6 7 (17.07%) Spring
6 7 (17.07%) Spring Boot
7 6 (14.63%) .NET Core
7 6 (14.63%) .NET Framework
7 6 (14.63%) Express.js
8 3 (7.32%) AngularJS
8 3 (7.32%) Blazor
8 3 (7.32%) REST
9 2 (4.88%) CSS
9 2 (4.88%) Flutter
9 2 (4.88%) Hibernate
9 2 (4.88%) Vue
9 2 (4.88%) WinForms
9 2 (4.88%) WPF
10 1 (2.44%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 11 (26.83%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (24.39%) Cloud Native
3 7 (17.07%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.44%) Credit Risk
4 1 (2.44%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.88%) Linux
1 2 (4.88%) Unix
2 1 (2.44%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 21 (51.22%) Agile
3 19 (46.34%) CI/CD
3 19 (46.34%) Mentoring
4 10 (24.39%) Microservices
5 9 (21.95%) Event-Driven
6 8 (19.51%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (19.51%) Roadmaps
7 7 (17.07%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 6 (14.63%) Coaching
8 6 (14.63%) Continuous Integration
8 6 (14.63%) DevOps
8 6 (14.63%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (14.63%) Low Latency
8 6 (14.63%) Operational Stability
8 6 (14.63%) SDLC
8 6 (14.63%) Software Testing
8 6 (14.63%) TDD
8 6 (14.63%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 26 (63.41%) JavaScript
2 23 (56.10%) C#
3 19 (46.34%) SQL
4 17 (41.46%) TypeScript
5 9 (21.95%) Java
6 6 (14.63%) PL/SQL
6 6 (14.63%) Python
7 5 (12.20%) Go
8 4 (9.76%) T-SQL
9 2 (4.88%) VB.NET
10 1 (2.44%) C
10 1 (2.44%) C++
10 1 (2.44%) Elixir
10 1 (2.44%) Erlang
10 1 (2.44%) F#
10 1 (2.44%) Haskell
10 1 (2.44%) Lisp
10 1 (2.44%) PHP
10 1 (2.44%) PureScript
10 1 (2.44%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (4.88%) SC Cleared
1 2 (4.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.44%) Accessibility
System Software
1 14 (34.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (39.02%) Kubernetes
2 8 (19.51%) Terraform
3 2 (4.88%) Istio
Vendors
1 6 (14.63%) Oracle
2 1 (2.44%) F5
2 1 (2.44%) Google
2 1 (2.44%) Microsoft
68 Software Engineer jobs in West Yorkshire